What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Yessir

 

Hard to guess at really, I know on a 2.4L engine with a lot of tubing and an intercooler it made 6.5psi almost instantly. The standard 2.7 SC comes with a 4psi pulley but you can go as far as 10psi. The same can be done with the previa SC too though, possibly even more.

 

The Death Valley trip continues - Goler Wash, Charcoal Kilns, Mahogany Flat, Panamint Valley, South Pass, and Saline Valley - quite the day.

Return to Death Valley - Day 3

...As I crawled into the tent, a warm light breeze and quiet
sounds of the desert lulled me to sleep quickly. Even if
the springs weren't the amazing destination that they used to be,
the desert itself made up for it - that was for sure.

Little did I know that as I slept change was afoot...

Read the story and see the pics - Return to Death Valley - Day 3 - A True Oasis

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I made most of it with 1/2" plywood, If I were to do it again Id definitely use 3/4" for the boards holding the bearings as I had a lot of issues trying to get them to stay straight. The border around the outside is 5/4 x 2.5" boards that I did to hold the weight better and to reinforce the sides with the bearings, I didnt use 2x4s because they were 1/4" too wide to fit over the wheel wells. The bearings I got on Amazon, a pack of 100 for $25, I might add more bearings near the ends to hold the drawer weight better when they're pulled out. making sure the bearings were almost perfectly straight was also difficult, probably the hardest part, and if you do this idea, take your time drilling the holes and make sure they are straight and on the exact points you marked, if they are off the drawers will either get pinched between 2 bearings or the drawer will have all its weight on only a couple bearings.



its bolted in with only 2 bolts near the back, I put rubber washers on the inside and outside to attempt to keep water out. Im gonna have to add another 1 or 2 bolts near the front to hold it down when the drawers are out, but its extremely sturdy as is. I made sure the front boards were high enough that the platform would sit behind it instead of on top. I also made sure to keep the platform just under the tie down points so i was still able to use those, so its about 10" high. All the side compartments are going to have lift out boards to access them, The reason the front end is empty is because I plan on putting a 21 gallon water tank and possibly a dual battery setup there.


The drawers were made with 1/2" plywood for the sides and some random thinner plywood I found in the garage for the bottoms, I used 2/4 corners and a board in the middle to hold the bottoms. The rails are 3/4x1.5" aluminum sharp corner tube, I drilled 3/4" holes in one side to fit a ratchet in to tighten the bolts, I used some countersunk stainless bolts for the insides so they'd sit flush. The fronts are made by basically screwing in 3.5" boards (can't remember the width) into a single 1/2" plywood board, I stretched and spray glued the canvas onto the fronts and then used roofing nails to hold it nice and stretched. Im gonna try to get strong magnets to hold the drawers closed but if not I have a slightly more complicated idea lol. I was planning on covering the entire platform in that cordura canvas but might go a different route now. I haven't cut all the pieces for the actual platform yet.

 

Nice work!

 

My understanding from what they said was that I'm only going to be in the 10" range regardless of the leaf. Not sure about how the valving will work. Good question. Have any threads I could read up on?

 

Same

 

@Lux I'm planning a similar setup, I want some extra storage at the cab end of the bed.

Not sure if I'll do drawer slides like that or not, I was thinking of using low friction slides on the bottoms, sitting right on the bed.

 

Anyone here have any experience with a P0136 code (downstream O2 sensor)? More likely a leak on the seal or replace the sensor itself?

I had to move my exhaust around quite a bit when installing my Dakars and wondering if maybe I did something to mess up the sensor; the code popped up the very next day.

Probably just going to replace the sensor per @Speedytech7's advice as they aren't that expensive...just wondering what other's experience with this code resulted in. Read a few accounts of it being related to a bad rear catalytic converter, but I figure I'd be throwing a P0420 if that were the case (happened last year and I replaced both cats with Magnaflows).

 

Just checked with ADS and they said they use a certain setup for basically all the aftermarket leafs. Once I'd run them for a bit I could get a better sense on what I'd want to do for additional tuning.

 

Thanks man!

 

This is tough to speculate as all setups are different. Depending on whether you got 2.0s or 2.5s the shock body can be of varying length and depending on your mounting points (stock or otherwise) it is hard to gauge where you'll sit in your travel and what usable travel you'll actually have. Like for example, if by some magic you managed to get bushings that let you put 10" 2.5 kings in the stock position, you'd have maybe 2.5" to 3" of uptravel (if that without welded ends) and you could maybe use 5" of that remaining sown travel leaving you with a lot of unused shock.

So what is your rear mounting going to be. 10" is about all you can hope to fit and use with custom mounting and no body lift or cutting through the bed. So you're on the right track for sure, but you have to do some custom fitting to make them mount up and use all their travel.

As far as valving, I suppose they have a default for leafs but depending on what you wheel with in the bed and such that can be pretty far off.

I don't know if you've read my thread but that has lots of help for mounting the shocks themselves

 

My ScanGuage has the ability to read transmission temperature, but like all of the non standard sensors you have to program it yourself.

I might’ve typed something wrong when I did it or my truck just isn’t capable of sending back transmission temp, but when I tested it my transmission fluid was apparently -39.9 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

I may be wrong it might only be a 00-04 thing. I don't have an auto Taco so no idea and my cruiser doesn't have OBDII

 

Can you only read tranny temp on a auto? Or could you on a 04 Manual as well?

 

Yeah I think it was something about the difference in the CAN and CANSF protocol.

 

Manuals don't have a temp sensor, no need really if it is getting really hot something is broken haha

 

I don’t see why a Manual trans would have a temperature gauge, I believe it was only a thing on autos.

 

Manuals don't need it. Just have gear lube in them. Only thing that gets really hot is the clutch and as long as you're not an idiot..you will be good.

Autos tranny fluid can get very hot from the torque converter slipping. Thus why its good to keep an eye on it. Can get very hot very quickly.

 

yeah my 04 doesn't have the ability to monitor the manual transmission, it's just an auto thing. Auto transmissions are much more susceptible to overheating and to issues from overheating, you'd have to try pretty hard to toast a manual transmission by overheating it I would think, and even then I'm sure something else like the clutch would give out long before that happened.